Make sure the doors are shut. I used to tape them. Remove any floppies you care about.
Some of the non-DEC 8” drives used to come with a cardboard blank. But these were double sided disks and the blank was meant (I believe) to prevent the heads from banging against each other. Jerry Weiss j...@ieee.org > On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: >> >>> From: devin davison >> >>> I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. >> >> Err, I think we told you to lock the heads the RL0x's, not RX0x's; the former >> use large rigid packs, the latter are 8" floppy drives. AFAIK, there is no >> need to lock RX heads when moving them - there is nothing in the manual about >> RX drives being shipped from DEC with the heads locks. > > That seems logical; stepper motors are to some extent self-locking. > > paul > >
